I think he wanted to quit or take a few days off and his people were like "well, if you really want/need to quit and protect your pockets you need to do XYZ"

What we forget is Ye has a lot of people depending on him. He can't just quit.

I don't know about being bi-polar but I wonder if the entertainment industry and bi polar disorder are linked in some way. Seems like a lot of actors and artist suffer from it and I think it's because their stage/acting persona bleeds into their regular life.

Once you change your name and get paid insane amounts for it it's prolly real easy to slip into that shit full time.